Corporate Biographies

Paul Van der Burgh

President and Managing Director, Toyota (GB) PLC

Paul Van der Burgh was appointed President and Managing Director, Toyota (GB) PLC, in July 2015. Prior to taking up the role, he was Director, Consumer One, at Toyota Motor Europe (click on portrait image for full biography).

Ewan Shepherd

Director, Lexus Division, Toyota (GB) PLC

Ewan Shepherd was appointed to head up Lexus in the UK as Director, Lexus Division, in March 2016 (click on portrait image for full biography).

Mark Roden

Director, Operations, Toyota (GB) PLC

Mark Roden was appointed Sales Director in April 2016. He moved to the role from the post of General Manager, Sales Operations, succeeding Ewan Shepherd (click on portrait image for full biography).

Chris Hayes

Director, People & Planning, Toyota (GB) PLC

Chris Hayes was appointed Director, People and Planning, in January 2019, with responsibility for human resources, corporate planning, corporate social responsibility and legal and compliance (click on portrait image for full biography).

Paula Cooper

Director, ConsumerOne, Toyota (GB) PLC

Paula Cooper was appointed the first Director of Toyota’s ConsumerOne function in August 2016. She brings extensive motor industry experience to the role, having joined Toyota in 1991 in the vehicle supply section.

Andrew Cullis

Director, Communications and Product, Toyota (GB) PLC

Andrew Cullis was appointed Toyota (GB) Marketing Director in January 2016, a role subsequently re-profiled as Communications and Product Director in 2018.

Darren Morris

Chief Financial Officer, Toyota (GB) PLC

Darren Morris trained with Shipley Blackburn Chartered Accountants (Shipleys LLP) in London. He left public practice to work for NEC and Psion in the consumer electronics sector before joining Toyota (GB) in 1997 (click on portrait image for full biography).

Robin Giles

Director, Customer Service, Toyota (GB) PLC

Robin – Rob – Giles was appointed Director, Customer Services, in January 2019, following Richard Balshaw’s move to Toyota Financial Services (UK) (click on portrait image for full biography).